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Love and Other Disasters
Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When Jacks meets Argentinian photographer's assistant Paolo Sarmiento, she assumes he is gay and tries to bring him and Peter together, unaware that Paolo is straight and in love with her.
Release : | 2006 |
Rating : | 6.1 |
Studio : | Ruby Films, Skyline Films, EuropaCorp, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Brittany Murphy Matthew Rhys Santiago Cabrera Catherine Tate Jamie Sives |
Genre : | Comedy Romance |
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Waste of time
A lot of fun.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
I love the way that this movie makes fun of the cinematic tropes associated with romance movies. The movie has a fun collection of characters,
With all due respect to Brittany Murphy, who died far too young, this one was a real stinker. I can't imagine what she was thinking after reading the script and signing on for this unapologetically indulgent exercise in the mass employment of gay actors. We've seen sicko Hollywood's regular inclusion of at least one gay man in almost every one of their insipid offerings in recent years, and now there are gay couples slobbering all over one another, not to mention the fact that they almost never show a naked woman anymore because the gays think that would be immoral (they are really screwed up that way) and the feminists think her modesty ought to be preserved at all costs just to show proper respect for her womanhood. These people far prefer and expect to see some man's stinkin' hairy ass, instead, which you may have noticed is a regular offering in almost every Hollywood production these days. What the rest of the audience thinks about it isn't even a consideration. This movie takes that situation to a real extreme. There are several gay couples in it and they get all kinds of air time. You're gonna need that fast forward button and will be using it liberally. We occasionally get to see Brittany Murphy hopping around in her skivvies, even naked (hiding behind a newspaper), but this little cutie is completely ignored by the men in her life, who are only interested in each other and walk right by her as if she doesn't even exist. Can't wait for all the homosexuals to clear out of Hollywood or at least to have control of movie making wrenched from their sickening grasp. Better yet, for Hollywood to go under and leave movie making to the foreigners. You can thank that Mama's Boy, Steven Spielberg, for starting Hollywood's precipitous decline following the American film renaissance of the 1960s, when the American movie industry was collectively engaged in serious work. Those days were over long ago.
This movie is charming, witty, and fun, all the way to the tango scene! That's where everything entertaining stops and it's a down hill slide all the way to the end! Truly you can see a complete change in the movie, character dialog, and the characters themselves. Everyone seem stalled into doing the same thing over and over.After the Tango scene everything becomes repetitive, predicable, and linear. It's truly sad for the story because the viewer can see every stumble and bump before it happens. Emily constantly talks too much, and Peter has the same jeans on throughout the entire story. You know Emily will get 'her man' at the end, and the only light that keep me watching this mush of a flick was Dawn French and Catherine Tate.What starts as a sweet story with engaging characters quickly becomes a run around of stereotyped people and situations! Too bad - too sad
This film was a mixed success for me. Being a comedy-of-errors kind of film, it surely has to make it new, as so many films came before it;and, yes, it is true, Brittany Murphy, seems somewhat - not quite displaced, not quite doing an effort - but she is not aesthetically ruinous, I mean, the film has pace problems, wants to include too many things, has some true moments of dialogue and nuanced English acting that make it work and truly redeem it, others that seem preheated --but!watch it just for the sake of Dawn French, playing the psychotherapist with such gusto, that even if it's for two minutes, it's a riot!We can comment on the rest of the film, this way, and that way, but just for this, it's a must see.